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Stalactites & stalagmites are to be seen & in places drops of water are heard percolating thru the wall. The general color of the limestone is black & sooty in appearance ^[[on the surface]] but this color is natural & not due to camp fires apparantly. Some of the stalactites are silvery white & in shape like great folds of ice or snow & not unlike Buddha's throne in our temple. I suspect the Chinese got their idea from a cave of this sort. We found only one bat, a large nyctis-like species. Very little bat dung was seen on the floor. Bird droppings were seen in small quantities but what species [[strikethrough]] this [[/strikethrough]] would haunt such a cave is quite unknown to us but the Chinese assert that birds do live in the cave. The cave is no doubt a long one but we only went 100 yds. into it. On